APUSH important foreign policy

treaty of paris

• end to the american revolution

• british forced to agree to american revolution

Jay treaty

Britain

• ohio borders

• reopen trade

Pinckney’s treaty

Spain

• georgia/florida border

• U.S. access of mississippi river and new orleans

French revolution + napoleonic era

• washington → adams → jefferson → madison

• xyz affair → quasi war (france) → embargo → non-intercourse act →macons bill no. 2

xyz affair

• americans go to france for negotiation

• french demand a bribe

quasi war

• undeclared naval war with france

• caused by attempt of french to bribe u.s.

• symbol of u.s tension

embargo

• jefferson

• we’re not going to trade with anyone!

• hurt the U.S.

non-intercourse act

• ok we’re going to open trade with everyone but british and france

• goal of pressuring european powers to respect american neutrality

macon’s bill no.2

• reopened trade with both nations

• names get weirder, becomes less effective

Impressment

• british taking Americans from ships and forcing them into service

• happened because British didn’t really accept the U.S. as real

Louisiana purchase

• jefferson yaps abt how the gov/pres shouldn’t have a lot of power

• buys all of this but doesn’t tell congress

• France pressures u.s. to buy all of it when we just wanted new orleans

War of 1812

• between british and americans

• lots of tensions starting with stuff like French Revolution with the british

• U.S. burns toronto down, this leads to burning of washington

• battle of new orleans

• treaty of ghent

• rush-bagot treaty: final end, borders finalized

• final campaign of american revolution

adams-onis treaty

• john quincy adams

• florida

monroe doctrine

• u.s. is not open to imperialism

Mexican war

• after texas independence

• treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

• western 1/3 of usa

completion of continental united states

• treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

• oregon treaty

• gadsden purchase (s arizona/sw new mexico)

“sewards folly“

• america gets alaska

• hates on it but then they find oil

Spanish american war

• cuba, puerto rico, philippines

• hawaii annexed

Manifest destiny

• spreading american values west

• mexican war, oregon treaty, gasden purchase, etc

Imperialism

• cousin of manifest destiny

• spreading american values overseas

• cuba, puerta rico, philippines, hawaii, etc

big stick diplomacy

• roosevelt

• peaceful negotiation backed up by big stick

• roosevelt corollary

roosevelt corollary

• addition to monroe doctrine

• us can intervene in latin america as “international police power“ to protect from europe

dollar diplomacy

• taft

• promote american economy abroad (latin america, asia)

• substituting military influence with financial influence

moral/mission diplomacy

• wilson

• promoting democracy instead of economy

Treaty of versailles and league of nations

• ended ww1

• germany heavily punished (territory loss, reparations)

• international organization preventing future war

era of isolationism

• in between ww1 and ww2

• fordney mccubert and hawley tariffs

• dawes plan

• washington naval conference

Fordeny mccumbert and smoot hawley tariffs

• both raised import duties to protect american farms/factories from foreign competition

Dawes plan

• restructed german reparations to reduce payments

• created cycle where Germany paid allies who then repaid US war debts

Washinton naval conference

• aimed to prevent post war naval arms race

• upholding “open door” policy with china

• ratio for battleships, naval arms reduction

Fdr elected

• USSR relations

• atlantic charter

• neutrality acts

  • cash ‘n’ carry

  • ships for base

  • lend lease

Atlantic charter

• fdr churchill meet on a boat

• outlined aims for postwar world

• kinda guaranteed eventual u.s. entry to war

cash ‘n’ carry

• undid neutrality acts

• allies could buy war materials from america during wwii

ships for bases

• undid neutrality acts

• u.s. transfer of wwi destroyers to uk for wwii

• gained bases in atlantic in return

lend lease

• undid neutrality acts

• u.s. loaned war materials to allies during wwii, they’d “return” them

• estupido, chewing gum

Yalta + potsdam

• defining end wwii, start of cold war

• creation of the united nations

korean war

• north korea (ussr) invades south korea

• south korea (u.s.) pushes up to china, but china threatened and drives them back

• reaches stalemate, cold war example

Berlin airlift

• ussr blockade on west berlin

• allies flew food and supplies here, eventually exhausted soviet union

containment

• truman

• u.s. responsibility to “contain” communist threat

truman doctrine

• shift of u.s from isolationism to containment

• u.s. commitment to stopping communist spread (greece, turkey)

marshall plan

• money for rebuilding western europe

• also for stopping spread of communism

Massive retaliation

• eisenhower (dulles)

• nuclear weapons response to communism

• suez crisis

• iran coup

• u2 spy

Flexible response

• JFK, Johnson

• peace corps (promoting u.s. stopping communism)

• brinkmanship (pushing ussr to nuclear war)

• berlin wall

Cuban missile crisis

• JFK, after bay of pigs failure

• u.s. discovers ussr nuclear missiles in cuba, tensions

• ussr promises to remove them if u.s. promises to not invade cuba

Detente

• Nixon, Ford, Carter

• China visit, SALT +, ABM treaties

  • arms control

iran hostage crisis

• carter bad, freed by reagan

• iran shah was in nyc, iran militants seized americans at embassy

camp david accords

• carter good

• brokered treaty betwen egypt and israel

Gulf war

• bush

• iraq (invaded kuwait for oil) vs big coalition put together by u.s.

• huge victory for u.s.

Reagan stuff

• “evil empire” → ussr (reagan doctrine)

• SDI + Defense spending

• afghanistan

• “tear down this wall”

9/11

• war on terrorism ————>